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We are committing a grave mistake by rejecting our Lord and God Jesus Christ by staying away because government officials say we must,’ the priest said... Irish Catholic priest Father P.J. Hughes has once again been confronted by police. Hughes was fined €500 fine for not turning people away from Mass during the current COVID-19 lockdown. Fr. Hughes, of Mullahoran parish in Co. Cavan, was reportedly approached by Gardai (Irish police) and presented with a €500 fine. His perceived offense was refusing to turn away members of his congregation who turned up in the church for Mass, since he refuses...

A study published in the Journal of Science, Public Health Policy and Law found that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) violated the Information Quality Act (IQA) and the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) by prescribing different and invalid standards for handling COVID-related fatalities. This resulted in massively inflating the fatality figures. Taking the data from the start of the pandemic to August 23, 2020, the new invalid standards reported 161,392 COVID deaths. If the prior valid standards had been adhered to the COVID fatalities would have been reported as 9,684. Dr. Anthony Fauci defended the new standards, saying...

Prince Harry announced his first job in the corporate world today by revealing he had taken an executive position at a Silicon Valley start-up that claims to be worth $1.7billion. The Duke of Sussex will be 'chief impact officer' at mental health services business BetterUp, where he will help promote an app used by corporate giants including Hilton, Facebook and oil firm Chevron to improve the wellbeing of their staff.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, Sponsored by SLANTED from Sharyl Attkisson, for Tuesday shows that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Biden’s job performance. Fifty percent (50%) disapprove. The latest figures include 31% who Strongly Approve of the job Biden is doing and 41% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10. (see trends)

Very interesting and worth watching to the very end. It’s appalling that the prosecution withheld the autopsy report from the defense and the public for three months as riots ripped the nation apart.

Journalism is all about access. To get the scoop, reporters must first get in. But some access comes with a price—and when totalitarian states hold the keys, ethical lines can be crossed. That’s what happened when one of the world’s most respected news organizations, The Associated Press, traded its editorial control for access to Nazi Germany during World War II, writes Philip Oltermann for the Guardian.Oltermann reports on a German historian’s new revelations that the Associated Press entered into “a formal cooperation with the Hitler regime” during the Nazi era. Harriet Scharnberg, a German historian, writes in the German academic...

On Monday, the Heritage Foundation announced that its current president, Kay Coles James, will resign later this year. Executive Vice President Dr. Kim R. Holmes, who rejoined the Heritage Foundation when James took over in 2018, will resign next month. “When we came on board as the executive leadership team three years ago, we set several goals and told Heritage’s board of trustees that we would serve for three to five years to see them through,” James said in a statement. “We accomplished everything we set out to do. Now it’s time to let someone else take the reins.” Under...

Facebook has removed all access to the Facebook profile believed to belong to Ahmad Al Issa, the person identified by police as the King Soopers shooting suspect who killed 10 in the Boulder, Colorado shooting. Screen shots of the Facebook page taken by Twitter users reveal that Al Issa was a devout Muslim who believed in conspiracy theories. Ahmad Al Issa’s profile was abruptly removed from the website, internet archive websites including the Archive.is and the Wayback machine, and Google’s cache nearly simultaneously.

The Hill reports that Rep. Always On-Camera (D-New York) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Not An Actual Cherokee) have introduced a new bill that would “invest” $500 billion to “create” “green jobs.” Use of multiple scare quotes is intentional. Neither the race-hustling professor nor AOC know much about job creation, having never created any meaningful number of non-government jobs. Government “investing” necessarily entails government taxing, or government just printing more money, which neither the Democrats nor The Hill note. Those green jobs supposedly already exist anyway; why else would John Kerry tell the Keystone XL pipeline workers whose jobs his boss...

The U.S. Army announced Monday that it will use keep the events on the third version of the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT 3.0) gender-neutral, but male and female soldiers will be evaluated on separate gender-specific percentile tiers, amid concerns female soldiers are scoring lower and disproportionately failing the test compared to their male counterparts

Oregon bureaucrats are proposing making the state’s mask mandate and social distancing requirements permanent. In their proposal, the state’s health bureaucrats admit that while the mandates were adopted “to address the COVID-19 pandemic,” they want to keep them beyond the May 4 expiration date. “Although the rule must be adopted as a permanent rule, its purpose is to address the COVID-19 pandemic,” the proposal reads. “Oregon intends to repeal the rule when it is no longer necessary to address the pandemic.” Notice that the proposal doesn’t outline how officials will determine when mandates are “no longer necessary,” hence the permanency....

Robert Long in Atlanta must have been motivated by racial hatred because...well, just because — because he is white! And a Christian! Law enforcement, including the FBI, cannot find proof that it was a hate crime, but it must have been!Well, let's look at some facts.Blacks commit a far higher proportion of hate crimes against Asians than do whites. According to the FBI, in 2019, there were 205 hate crimes against Asians, of which 46% were committed by whites and 15% by blacks (for some reason, the Department of Justice, the FBI's parent organization, says 52.5% were committed by whites...

Eating processed meat could raise one’s chances of developing dementia, researchers from the UK say, with just a single rasher of bacon a day associated with a 44% increased risk of contracting the brain-wasting disease. Researchers at the University of Leeds examined data from almost half a million people to assess how eating meat impacts on health. Their findings, released Monday in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, show that eating a 25g serving of bacon – one rasher – every day could increase a person’s dementia risk by up to a half. If processed meat is bad, then the...

Gun control is easier than ever now that Democrats control the White House and Congress Before details were known about the massacre that happened Monday in Boulder, Colorado, Democrats rushed to advance their gun control agenda. Police say that 10 people — including one police officer — were murdered at a grocery store. The killer was eventually apprehended, suffering only a few injuries. What did Democrats say? Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), one of the staunchest gun control advocates in Congress, said America must use the Boulder atrocity to take its stand against gun violence. "This is the moment to make...

President Joe Biden keeps in regular contact with Barack Obama to canvass his opinion on a range of issues, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Monday. ..... Snip..... Psaki declined to give an exact number of times the two has spoken, prefering to offer they “keep in regular touch” and their respective teams also were in regular touch “about a range of issues.”

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, was identified as the suspect in the shooting at King Soopers in Boulder, Colorado that left 10 people dead, including Boulder Police Officer Eric Talley. The victims are Denny Strong, 20, Neven Stanasic, 23, Rikki Olds, 25, Tralona Bartkowiak, 49, Suzanne Fountain, 59, Teri Leiker, 51, Officer Talley, 51, Kevin Mahoney, 61, Lynn Murray, 62, and Jody Waters, 65. Police were called for an active shooter inside the grocery store at 3600 Table Mesa Drive at about 2:40 p.m. local time where a grocery store turned into a bloodbath during the country’s most recent mass...

Israeli experts uncover Dead Sea Scrolls for first time in 60 years: The significance of the find, explained Around 80 new fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in excavations in the Judean Desert, according to Israeli archaeologists. About 132 and 136 A.D., they were most likely hidden during a Jewish revolt against Rome. Israeli archaeologists reported the discovery of dozens of Dead Sea Scroll fragments bearing a biblical text in a desert cave, thought to have been hidden nearly 1,900 years ago during a Jewish revolt against Rome. According to the Israel Antiquities Authority, the fragments of parchment...

The gunman who allegedly opened fire in a Boulder, Colorado, grocery store on Monday has been identified as 21-year-old Ahmad Alissa. The New York Post reports that Alissa was charged with “charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder” on Tuesday.

The Biden-Harris administration is shutting down the southwest end of the National Mall around the Tidal Basin during two-week peak cherry blossom time to prevent the public from walking around in fresh air and sunshine to view the annual event in person over fears of COVID-19. Open air memorials to Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King and Franklin Roosevelt located near the Tidal Basin will be closed to keep people from sneaking a peak at the cherry blossoms.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection released its first official videos on Tuesday that show inside two illegal immigrant detention centers in Texas housing record numbers of unaccompanied children as pressure mounts over the media’s limited access.The footage, recorded a week before its Tuesday release, shows cramped living conditions inside a processing facility in El Paso, Texas, and a holding facility in Donna, Texas. Thousands of migrants, including families, await transfer to other federal agencies, ABC News reported.